1.Horchata
In December, drinking horchata
I'd look psychotic in a balaclava
Winter's cold is too much to handle
Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals
In December, drinking horchata
Look down your glasses at that aranciata
With lips and teeth to ask how my day went
Boots and fists to pound on the pavement
Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on
You'd remember drinking horchata
You'd still enjoy it with your foot on masada
Winter's cold is too much to handle
Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals
Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on
Oh you had it but oh no you lost it
Looking back you shouldn't have fought it
In December, drinking horchata
I'd look psychotic in a balaclava
But winter's cold is too much to handle
Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals
Years go by and hearts start to harden
Those palms and firs that grew in your garden
Are falling down and nearing the rosebeds
The roots are shooting up through the tool shed
Those lips and teeth that asked how my day went
Are shouting up through cracks in the pavement
Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on
Oh you had it but oh no you lost it
You understood so you shouldn't have fought it.
Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on
Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on
2.White Sky
An ancient business, a modern piece of glass work
Down on the corner that you walk each day in passing
The elderly sales clerk won't eye us with suspicion
The holy motor corporation is giving it's permission
A little stairway
A little bit of carpet
A pair of mirrors that
Are facing one another
Out in both directions
A thousand little Julias
That come together
In the middle of Manhattan
You waited since lunch
It all comes at once
Around the corner
The house that modern art built
I ask for modern art
To keep it out the closets
The people who might own it
The sins of pride and envy
And on the second floor
The Richard Serra Skate Park
You waited since lunch
It all comes at once
Sit on the park wall, ask all the right questions
While all the horses race the taxis in the winter
Look up at the buildings imagine who might live there
Imagining your wolfords in a ball upon the sink there
You waited since lunch
It all comes at once
3.Holiday
Holiday, oh, a holiday
And the best one of the year
Underneath my sheets
While I cover both my ears
But if I wait for a holiday
Could it stop my fears？
To go away on a summer's day
Never seemed so clear
Holiday, still so far away
A republic on the beach
I can't forget just how bad it gets
When I'm counting on my teeth
But if I wait for a holiday
Could it stop my fears？
To go away on a summer's day
Never seemed so clear
A vegetarian since the invasion
She'd never seen the word 'bombs'
She'd never seen the word bombs blown up to 96 point Futura
She'd never seen an A-K in a yellowy day-glo display
A teacher so lovely, it turned all the history books red
I got wheels, I got Cutter spray
And a healthy sense of worth
Half of me is the gasoline
But the other half's the surf
But if I wait for a holiday
Could it stop my fears？
To away on a summer's day
Never seemed so clear
4.California English
Wouldn't ever gag you with a spoon, my only true love
Never really heard you speak that way, it's unworthy of'
Funny how that little college girl called language corrupt
Funny how the other private schools had no Hapa Club
Someone took a trip before you came to ski in the Alps
Your father moved across the country just to sunburn his scalp
Contra Costa, Contra Mundum, contradict what I say
Living like the French Connection, but we'll die in LA
Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Through the condo that they'll never finish
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
And through your brain to California English
No one sits inside a freezing flat and stays there 'til May
Leafing through a stack of A-Zs to surf the UK
Waiting with the wind against your face and gel in your hair
Shivering in little undershirts, but don't seem to care
Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Through the condo that they'll never finish
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
And through your brain to California English
Sweet carob rice cake
She don't care how the sweets taste
Fake Philly cheese steak
But she use real toothpaste
Cuz if that Tom's don't work
If it just makes you worse
Would you loose all of you faith in the good Earth
And if it's all a curse
And we're just getting worse
Baby, please don't lose your faith in the good earth
Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Through the condo that they'll never finish
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
And through your brain to California English
Blasted from a disconnected light switch
Through the condo that they'll never finish
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish
And through your brain to California English
5.Taxi Cab
Unsentimental
Driving around
Sure of myself
Sure of it now
You were standing this close to me
Like the future was supposed to be
In the aisles of the grocery
And the blocks up-town
I remember
Remember well
But if I'd forgotten
Could you tell？
In the shadow of your first attack
I was questioning and looking back
You said 'Baby, we don't speak of that'
Like a real aristocrat
Compound to compound
Lazy and safe
Wanting to leave it
Wanting to wait
When the taxi doors opened wide
I pretended I was horrified
by the uniformed clothes outside
and the courtyard gate
You're not a victim
But neither am I
Nostalgic for garbage
Desperate for time
I could blame it on your mother's hair
Or the colors that your father wears
But I know that I was never fair
You were always fine
Unsentimental
Driving around
Sure of myself
Sure of it now
You were standing this close to me
Like the future was supposed to be
In the aisles of the grocery
and the blocks up-town
I remember
Remember it well
And if I'd forgotten
Could you tell？
In the shadow of your first attack
I was questioning and looking back
You were standing on another track
Like a real aristocrat
6.Run
Every dollar counts
And every morning hurts
We mostly work to live
Until we live to work
She said, 'You know, there's nowhere else to go.'
But change in rows
It struck me that the two of us could run
Words away from cars
And all the stars in bars
Where a little bit of condensation means so much
And a little bit of change is all your little fingers touch
I said, 'You know, there's nowhere else to go.'
But change in rolls
It struck me that the two of us could run
Cause honey with you
Is the only honest way to go
And I could take two
But I really couldn't ever know
Honey with you
And a little battered radio
We could try
So lead my feet away
Cause all they do is stay
And I don't think your eyes
Have ever looked surprised
She said, 'You know, there's nowhere left to go.'
But with her fund
It struck me that the two of us could run
Cause honey with you
Is the only honest way to go
And I could take two
If I really couldn't ever know
Honey with you
And battered radio
We could try
7.Cousins
You found a sweater on the ocean floor
They're gonna find it if you didn't close the door
You and this model sit outside the side
In a house on a street they wouldn't park on the night
Dad was a risk taker
His was a shoe maker
You greatest hits 2006
Little list-maker
Caught in the melody
You wait in the car
You were born with ten fingers
and you're gonna use them all
Interest in colors, I discover myself
If your art life is gritty you'll be toasting my health
If an interest in culture should be lining the walls
When your birth right is interest you could just accrue it all
Me and my cousins
You and your cousins
It's a line that is always running
Me and my cousins
You and your cousins
I can feel it coming
You can turn your back on the bitter world
You can turn your back on the bitter world
You can turn your back on the bitter world
You can turn your back on the bitter world
Me and my cousins
You and your cousins
It's a line that is always running
Me and my cousins
You and your cousins
I can feel it coming
Me and my cousins
You and your cousins
It's a line that is always running
Me and my cousins
You and your cousins
I can feel it coming
8.Giving Up The Gun
Your sword's grown old and rusty
Burnt beneath the rising sun
It's locked up like a trophy
Forgetting all the things it's done
And though it's been a long time
You're right back where you started from
I see it in your eyes
That now you're giving up the gun
When I was seventeen
I had wrists like steel
And I felt complete
And now my body fades
Behind a brass charade
And I'm obsolete
But if the chance remained
To see those better days
I'd cut the cannons down
My ears are blown to bits
From all the rifle hits
But still I crave that sound
Your sword's grown old and rusty
Burnt beneath the rising sun
It's locked up like a trophy
Forgetting all the things it's done
And though it's been a long time
You're right back where you started from
I see it in your eyes
That now you're giving up the gun
I heard you play guitar
Down at a seedy bar
Where skinheads used to fight
You talk tokugawa smile
And your garbage style
Used to save the night
You felt the coming wave
Told me we'd all be brave
You said you wouldn't flinch
But in the years that passed
Since I saw you last
You haven't moved an inch
Your sword's grown old and rusty
Burnt beneath the rising sun
It's locked up like a trophy
Forgetting all the things it's done
And though it's been a long time
You're right back where you started from
I see it in your eyes
That now you're giving up the gun
I see you shining your way
Go on, go on, go on
I see you shining your way
Go on, go on, go on
I see you shining your way
Go on, go on, go on
I see you shining your way
Go on, go on, go on
I see you shining your way
Go on, go on, go on
I see you shining your way
Go on, go on, go on
Your sword's grown old and rusty
Burnt beneath the rising sun
It's locked up like a trophy
Forgetting all the things it's done
And though it's been a long time
You're right back where you started from
I see it in your eyes
That now you're giving up the gun
9.Diplomat's Son
It's not right
but it's now or never
and if I wait
could I ever forgive myself？
Oh night
When the moon glows yellow in the rip tide
with a laugh
and the TV's buzzing in the house
Cause I'm gonna go to where I came in
and I'm gonna take it behind them
if I ever have the chance its now then
but I never had the feeling I could offer that to you
to offer it to you would be cruel
when all I want to do is use use you
You was the diplomat's son
It was '81
You was the diplomat's son
It was '81
Dressed in white
with my car keys hidden in the kitchen
I can sleep wherever I lay my head
and the sight
of dishes sitting in the bathtub
let me know
that I shouldn't give up just yet
Cause I'm gonna take it from Simon
and I'm gonna pick up behind them
If I ever have the chance it's now then
but I never had the feeling I could offer that to you
to offer it to you would be cruel
when all I want to do is use use you
You was the diplomat's son
It was '81
You was the diplomat's son
It was '81
I hope you said I'm not doing right
I can't go back to how I felt before
That night I smoked a joint
my best friend we found ourselves in bed
when I woke up he was gone
He was the diplomat's son
It was '81
He was the diplomat's son
It was '81
Looking out
at the ice cold water all around me
I can't feel any traces of that other place
In the dark
with the wind comes racing off the river
there's a car all black with diplomatic plates
10.I Think UR A Contra
I had a feeling once
That you and I
Could tell each other everything
For two months
But even with our oath
And with truth on our side
When you turn away from me
It's not right
I think you're a contra
I think you're a contra
I think you're a contra
I think you're a contra
My revolution votes
Your little lies of desire
I wanna trace them to the source
And the wire
But it's not useful now
Since we both made up our minds
You're gonna watch out for yourself
And so will I
I think you're a contra
I think that you lied
Don't call me contra
'Til you've tried
You wanted good schools and friends with pools
You're not a contra
You wanted rock and roll, complete control
Well I don't know
Never pick sides
Never choose between two
But I just wanted you
I just wanted you
Said never pick sides
Never choose between two
But I just wanted you
I just wanted you
I think you're a contra
I think that you lied
Don't call me contra
'Til you've tried
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